Three years ago, I left a church community that had become spiritually abusive.

(There. I said it. Whew.)

Today was our first day of school, and I was woefully unprepared.

There are not many things that instill terror in me more right now than the thought that I could be a careless or unskilled teacher to my students. Full disclosure: I teach my own kids; I’m a homeschool mom. I know.